Michael Ratner

Michael Ratner "is an attorney who works with and is the vice-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is currently the Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School and a lecturer in law at Columbia law school. While he has worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights most of his 27 years of practice his other positions have included:

"Special Counsel to President Aristide to assist in the prosecution of human rights crimes (1995-1996); Instructor, Yale Law School, International Human Rights Law Clinic (1990-1994); Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights (1984-1990); President, National Lawyers Guild (1982-1983); Instructor, N.Y.U. Law School, Federal Civil Rights Litigation (1973-1974); Clerk, U.S. District Court, Judge Constance Baker Motley (1970-1971) He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1970, Kent Scholar, Magna Cum Laude." 


 * Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
 * Director, International Endowment for Democracy
 * Director, The Real News
 * International Advisory Board, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
 * Advisory Board, Grassroots International
 * Advisory Board, Left Forum
 * Winner of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize

He maintains a blog which "will focus on the emerging police state in America" at http://michaelratner.com/blog/?page_id=2